| Final 18:30 | | time | gap | L | Butter | Back | Breast | Y | | 1. Istvan Bathazi |  Hungary | 4:18.51 | | 6 | 1:00.46 | 2:07.78 | 3:20.72 | 78 | | 2. Cezar Badita |  Romania | 4:19.42 | +0.91s | 5 | 59.73s | 2:09.04 | 3:20.12 | 79 | | 3. Johann Le Bihan |  France | 4:20.50 | +1.99s | 3 | 59.09s | 2:06.48 | 3:19.69 | 79 | | 4. Michael Halika |  Israel | 4:20.89 | +2.38s | 4 | 59.56s | 2:07.47 | 3:21.09 | 78 | | 5. Alessio Boggiatto |  Italy | 4:22.61 | +4.10s | 2 | 1:00.41 | 2:09.28 | 3:22.93 | 81 | | 6. Kurt Bohm |  Germany | 4:24.30 | +5.79s | 8 | 58.98s | 2:09.52 | 3:24.67 | 80 | | 7. Massimiliano Eroli | Italy | 4:24.31 | +5.80s | 1 | 1:00.42 | 2:08.55 | 3:24.35 | 76 | | 8. Yves Platel |  Switzerland | 4:25.81 | +7.30s | 7 | 1:00.91 | 2:10.65 | 3:24.64 | 79 |
| World Record: Tom Dolan, United States 4:12.30 WC Rome, Italy 6th September, 1994 | | European Record: Tamas Darnyi, Hungary 4:12.36 WC Perth, Australia 8th January 1991 | | Championship Record: Jani Sievinen, Finland 4:14.75 Vienna, Austria 23th August 1995 |
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Heats - Saturday, 9th July 09:35 | | First 8 times advanced to Final. |
| Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Butter | Back | Breast | Y | | 5. Alessio Boggiatto | Italy | 4:23.82 | +2.03s | 5 | 1:00.35 | 2:08.63 | 3:21.97 | 81 | | 9. Ioannis Kokkodis |  Greece | 4:25.96 | +4.17s | 3 | 1:01.97 | 2:09.36 | 3:23.96 | 81 | | 10.Marko Milenkovic |  Slovenia | 4:26.79 | +5.00s | 7 | 1:01.19 | 2:09.14 | 3:26.10 | 76 | | 15.Baptiste Levaillant | France | 4:27.60 | +5.81s | 6 | 1:00.44 | 2:09.52 | 3:25.95 | 80 | | 17.Teo Edo |  Spain | 4:27.97 | +6.18s | 2 | 1:02.25 | 2:09.11 | 3:27.10 | 79 | | 23.Markus Rogan |  Austria | 4:38.86 | +17.07s | 1 | 1:01.87 | 2:08.15 | 3:31.28 | 82 | | -. Frederik Hviid | Spain | DNS | | 4 | | | | 74 | | -. Orn Arnarson |  Iceland | DNS | | 8 | | | | 81 |
| Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Butter | Back | Breast | Y | | 1. Michael Halika | Israel | 4:21.79 | | 4 | 59.46s | 2:07.06 | 3:20.36 | 78 | | 2. Cezar Badita | Romania | 4:22.95 | +1.16s | 5 | 1:00.34 | 2:11.21 | 3:23.82 | 79 | | 4. Istvan Bathazi | Hungary | 4:23.52 | +1.73s | 3 | 1:01.19 | 2:10.19 | 3:23.68 | 78 | | 11.Dmytro Nazarenko |  Ukraine | 4:26.86 | +5.07s | 7 | 1:01.04 | 2:08.22 | 3:22.99 | 80 | | 12.Jan Vitazka |  Czechia | 4:26.98 | +5.19s | 2 | 1:00.07 | 2:10.24 | 3:25.60 | 76 | | 14.Krzystof Golon |  Poland | 4:27.45 | +5.66s | 1 | 1:00.44 | 2:10.44 | 3:25.96 | 77 | | 16.Michael Windisch | Austria | 4:27.82 | +6.03s | 6 | 1:00.10 | 2:09.58 | 3:26.59 | 76 | | 24.Aleksandar Miladinovski |  Macedonia | 4:40.56 | +18.77s | 8 | 1:00.67 | 2:14.87 | 3:36.16 | 79 |
| Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Butter | Back | Breast | Y | | 3. Johann Le Bihan | France | 4:23.01 | +1.22s | 3 | 58.84s | 2:05.25 | 3:18.94 | 79 | | 6. Yves Platel | Switzerland | 4:25.19 | +3.40s | 2 | 59.87s | 2:08.72 | 3:22.89 | 79 | | 7. Massimiliano Eroli | Italy | 4:25.34 | +3.55s | 5 | 59.89s | 2:07.82 | 3:24.32 | 76 | | 8. Kurt Bohm | Germany | 4:25.38 | +3.59s | 6 | 59.96s | 2:08.53 | 3:24.72 | 80 | | 13.Marcel Wouda |  Netherlands | 4:27.06 | +5.27s | 4 | 1:00.35 | 2:08.50 | 3:24.14 | 72 | | 19.Roel Janssen |  Belgium | 4:33.46 | +11.77s | 7 | 1:03.88 | 2:13.26 | 3:30.95 | 79 | | 21.Sandro Tomas |  Croatia | 4:35.65 | +13.86s | 8 | 1:02.25 | 2:13.84 | 3:33.31 | 72 | | 25.Michael Cole |  Great Britain | 4:45.27 | +23.48s | 1 | 1:02.67 | 2:12.11 | 3:35.66 | 78 |
| Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Butter | Back | Breast | Y | | 18.Shilo Ayalon | Israel | 4:32.77 | +10.98s | 6 | 1:03.31 | 2:13.93 | 3:33.20 | 81 | | 20.Sergiy Sergeyev | Ukraine | 4:35.25 | +13.46s | 5 | 1:03.22 | 2:14.85 | 3:31.57 | 70 | | 22.Margus Saia |  Estonia | 4:38.66 | +16.87s | 2 | 1:02.89 | 2:14.15 | 3:32.61 | 81 | | 26.Oral Orel |  Turkey | 4:53.94 | +32.15s | 3 | 1:02.92 | 2:15.40 | 3:40.10 | 79 | | -. Jani Sievinen |  Finland | DNS | | 4 | | | | 74 |
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